Re: Some CPU benches (Speedsys & Sandra)

Posted on 2009-08-02, 02:37

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I am very disappointed in all of you. {snip!} Stop just stop. You guys can't tempt me into buying a Cyrix MII. It's a lost cause. Seriously. Hey wait, I have a Cyrix 5x86. Too bad it's got nothing on either the Am5x86 @ 160 or a PODP @ 100. Oh wellz. Maybe if they hadn't released it partially …

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How to identify an MB component "Q86"

Posted on 2009-08-02, 02:28

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A few years ago, getting ready to assemble a PC for one of my sons, the technophobic one, and even though I would have preferred building an AMD based system, since Intel's P4s were just so far behind the K7s and K8s, considering that anti-tech attitude, I figured "Intel" and "Pentium" would sound …

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Re: Lets talk size of games.

Posted on 2009-07-31, 15:35

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I looked at a list I've made of games I never played, or didn't play enough, when they were current, that I have some interest in playng now, and published system requirements apparently didn't start including storage space numbers until the late 1990's, and even then, it wasn't a universal …

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Re: Sound Blaster PCI Legacy problems.....

Posted on 2009-07-27, 03:26

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That utility is VERY interesting. I have an SE440BX (again), with a Slot1 P2 400 MHz cpu, and I thought that was too fast for the several oldies I might play on it, so I want to try telling the 400 (or perhaps a 266 that I have as well, but really don't have as confident of a feeling about) that …

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Re: Neverwinter Nights Question

Posted on 2009-07-21, 01:48

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KotOR isn't nearly the kind of challenge that appeals to this crowd! It runs just fine on fairly current hardware. After all, it was released practically yesterday -- in 2003!

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Re: Neverwinter Nights Question

Posted on 2009-07-20, 20:43

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Bioware still has forums for their own NWN, you know! http://swforums.bioware.com/viewforum.html?forum=80

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Re: 1990: What hardware were you using?

Posted on 2009-07-20, 16:58

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Excuse me for my American potato orientation, but we don't have any special knife just for potatoes. For butter, we do, and some other things, but not for potatoes. What's different about the one that y'all renamed in honor of the potato? (In my lexicon, a "peeler" may have blades, but the swivel …

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Re: 1990: What hardware were you using?

Posted on 2009-07-20, 08:27

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As best I can recall, my 386DX-25 was still my workhorse, with 5 MBs of RAM (the most expensive part of that one), both sizes of floppy drives, and an 80 MB Hdd. I can't recall the exact model, but the VGA was a Trident, and the DOS was 5.0. I might still have had a second old PC, an AT 286 clone …

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Re: Look, another voodoo card another member has won!

Posted on 2009-07-20, 01:44

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some of you may recall that there was a period of a few years, back when the 3dFX cards were being sold, that CRPGs weren't being released. Those were the only games that I made the time to play, and my free time then was very limited. I was aware of the VooDoo cards through the game magazines, …

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Re: Look voodoo card I won!

Posted on 2009-07-19, 23:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Within the past hour, I was high bidder on a VooDoo3, 3000, for $6 shipped! :happyhappy: No one else bid, but it comes with nothing at all other than a promise that it won't be DoA. Did the AGP versions also have poor 2D quality? And if I could find a pass-through cable for it, would it work like a …

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Re: question about properly installing old motherboard in Win98 SE

Posted on 2009-07-19, 10:49

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In my experience, they are referred to by socket number, or type, as in SlotA, Slot1, not by CPU. And I noticed the same thing recently. I was building my own to some extent before and after the 486s, and there were none (MB drivers) for 386s.

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Re: An old, but still very sore, place, left over from years ago, and Swaaye mentioned it . .

Posted on 2009-07-05, 12:31

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This was before the various Titaniums, GF3, even, were on the scene. Same for any "numbered" Radeon (I think). I believe that s370 for P3 was still quite new, so I was using a Riva from an nVIDIA partner, and the Geforce256 would still have been priced pretty steeply. The ATI card would've been from …

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Re: An old, but still very sore, place, left over from years ago, and Swaaye mentioned it . .

Posted on 2009-07-04, 23:49

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While I was trying to get mine to run the Icewind Dales games, and failing miserably, it seemed I was the only one having trouble. I got no encouragement from Creative or Intel, and rather weak support from ATI at that time, while it seemed the nVIDIA people (or the parters, at least), when I tried …

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An old, but still very sore, place, left over from years ago, and Swaaye mentioned it . .

Posted on 2009-07-04, 23:03

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(PIII, Athlon mobo w ISA slot remommendation :: 6-10-09 @ 01:49 pm) I saw this in an ongoing thread, and didn't want to jump in the middle, so here's the quote: ________________________ There are Coppermine 1GHz CPUs but if you have a 800 MHz you're good 2 go IMO. You only need adapters if you are …

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Re: freedos for games

Posted on 2009-07-04, 20:40

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you can easilly find a ms-dos boot disk using google Not so long ago, I was planning to put WinNT 4 on an old Dx4 system, and wanted a starting point in old DOS. I tried three to five 3 1/2" floppies I have /had that supposedly had DOS on them, before finding one that would boot. It has been so …

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Re: Determining CPU orientation on Socket 3 motherboards

Posted on 2009-07-04, 18:27

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Retrospectively, I was curious if that sort of thing was easily found with some simple Google search crieria, and I found an extract from a book discussed in other threads here: Upgrading and Repairing PCs . According to that, there should not have been any smoke, because supposedly that socket is …

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Determining CPU orientation on Socket 3 motherboards

Posted on 2009-07-04, 17:42

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While moving a couple of relatively old MBs to make some room on a bench, I ran across my old DX4/100 mainboard, and recalled what I did to it last. Almost certainly, I had references 14 years ago or so, when I was using that oldie, that told me how to choose the right set of socket holes to line up …

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Re: Crimson skies now fixed

Posted on 2009-07-03, 17:25

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When I tested Crimson Skies initially, I used a relatively up to date PC for the year (2005), but it was a dual-boot setup, and had Windows98se available, so that's where I tested. It worked just fine for me, and seemed like a potential high-attractant game to offer to my grandkid. He was getting …

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Re: Your most unreliable retro hardware?

Posted on 2009-07-03, 16:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Contrary to the overall community's experience, back in the Pentium P-II era, I had much better service from a little-known "VIP" mainboard with a Via MVP3 chipset than from a genuine Intel MB with a 440BX chipset. The Intel board gave me constant problems, while the semi-generic Via board soldiered …

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Re: more socket 8 craziness

Posted on 2009-07-03, 01:09

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I just love that skyscraper of a long, tall tower! I have a "fairly tall" old box with a pedestal base under it that reminded me of IBM's PS/2 Model 80, but it's shorter than that Compaq's box by at least a couple of 5 1/4 drives' worth. I have just three bays on top for optical drives, then two …

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